Recently we've been looking at some of the complicated aspects of the human experience like ambition, fear and certainty and how they fit with the life of faith in God's grace.
Mike Gathright considered the complication of relationships.
ARE YOU SURE?
Have you ever wondered why things are the way they are? Have you been frustrated by the answer you got? How can we have faith that everything is going to work out when there are so many parts of life that just don’t seem to make sense?
This Sunday at the Gathering Paul Knapp picked up where Mike Gathright left off. He continued our exploration of how the complications and paradoxes that make up the human condition find their proper place in the life of faith.
THE COMPLICATION OF FEAR
In our real everyday lives we all experience all kinds of feelings and drives that might at first seem mutually incompatible to the life of faith.
People! Sheesh. People are the best and the hardest part of life. Why is that?
This Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright continued our exploration of how all of the complications and paradoxes that make up the human condition find their proper place in the life of faith.
IDIOT LIGHTS & AMBITION
In our real, everyday lives we all experience all kinds of feelings and drives that might at first seem mutually incompatible to the life of faith.
This month at Storyline's Gathering, Mike Gathright will look at some of these, beginning with, "what do we do with ambition?"
COMMERCIAL SUNDAY
Whether you enjoy the whole game or just tune in for the halftime show, we invite you to join us for a special morning with Storyline where it was all about... the commercials!
Fellow Storyliners shared how their experiences of life, faith, and community relate to the mini-stories revealed in commercials. Hear how the ads that seem to have just one purpose - selling us something - can mean so much more.
RESOLVE TO RESPOND, Part 4 - So Abraham Left
It is the end of January - any resolutions, still intact? Aargh!
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will consider one last time, the power of the resolution to respond to Grace, not as a way to make something happen, but as a way to "let something happen" in our lives.
RESOLVE TO RESPOND, Part 3 - Seasoning
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright continued our exploration of how resolving to respond to Grace is much more like letting something happen than making it happen.
RESOLVE TO RESPOND, Part 2 - Prayer
How do you let something happen? This is the question we are asking this month as we consider resolving to respond to Grace.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Jill McNabnay considered the surprising role that prayer plays in letting God's Grace change us and our lives.
RESOLVE TO RESPOND, Part 1 - Let It Happen
Happy New Year! Let's see, how long will my resolutions last? Why are they so hard to keep?
What if there was a resolution that could change our lives that wasn't about what we could make happen, but something we could let happen? This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will look at a new kind of resolution.
A NEW KIND OF COMMUNITY
Every community has distinctives...that is what makes a group a community. Jesus dismissed the distinctives of class, gender, race, ethnicity, nation, religion, and politics we use to form community and created something never seen before.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored how Jesus created community and the enormous challenge and opportunity it for us.
THE BIG QUESTION OF XMAS
"What do you want?" That is the refrain of the season, right? And it is a great question - one that is often hard to answer. But, how about this one, "what does God want?"
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will take a look at this question
and how Christmas might help us answer it.
STUCK, STRANDED & SURROUNDED
Charles Dickens wrote, "It is good to be children sometimes, never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself."
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered how community and Christmas and childhood can all work together.
FAST OR FAR
Why are the things that are good for us often so hard? Why is exercise difficult and ice cream yummy? Why is living in community both critical and complicated?
As we continue to explore the depths and difficulties of community this Sunday, Mike Gathright will consider why it is so good for us and the world and yet so hard.
CIRCUMAMBULATING GRACE
If love, community, and friendship are the reason behind life and the reason for life, the question Rodney King asked America in the midst of the 1992 L.A. Riot, "Why can't we all just get along?" is no less important today.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered this question and the challenging yet inspiring invitation the God of Grace if offering us all.
FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD
Could any one thing rightly be called the foundation of everything, of all of life and existence itself? Is it possible that everything finds its beginning and end, its source and goal, in one thing.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will delve into these questions and the simple and beautiful yet challenging and transforming assertion Jesus makes about them.